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Donald Trump will speak at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona.
It comes as the President-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending, as lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday (December 21) , narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown.
Trump failed to achieve his central goal of raising the debt limit.
It demonstrated that despite his decisive election victory and frequent promises of retribution, many members of his party are still willing to openly defy him.
